Analytical Facilities

Cambridge

The Godwin Laboratory for Paleoclimate Research has a long and distinguished record of research focusing on palaeoclimate reconstruction. State-of-the-art instrumentation for trace elemental and stable isotope analysis of carbonates and fluid inclusions is available.

Potsdam

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research hosts a high performance computer cluster (IBM/Lenovo NeXtScale nx360M5) with state of the art Intel Haswell processors (in total 5088 CPU cores) with scalar frequencies of up to 3.4 GHz and 64 GByte DDR4 memory per compute node, reaching 212 TFlops/s. It is extended by a set of graphical coprocessors (nVidia Kepler K40 accelerators) to support development of new applications and 6 large memory compute servers (256GB RAM) available for the project. The system is completed by a high available parallel file system with 2 PByte capacity and 20 GB/s read/write bandwidth, and a non-blocking high performance FDR Infiniband network. To accomplish high energy efficiency, the computer cluster has a direct watercooling for processors and memory waste heat that is used to heat the campus’ office building(s) during winter season.